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While browsing for the usual stuff last night, I came upon the following web page:

http://www.example.com/

A quick Whois look up reveals:

[Querying whois.iana.org]
[whois.iana.org]

IANA Whois Service
Domain: example.com
Name: IANA_RESERVED

Registrant:
Unavailable

Administrative Contact:
Unavailable

Technical Contact:
Unavailable

Nameserver Information:
Nameserver: a.iana-servers.net.
IP Address: 192.0.34.43
Nameserver: b.iana-servers.net.
IP Address: 193.0.0.236
Nameserver: c.iana-servers.net.
IP Address: 139.91.1.10

The Internet’s version of “This space intentionally left blank”

I was installing Microsoft .NET 3.5 last night.  It’s one of those online installers.  Meaning the setup.exe file downloads the installation files from Microsoft, then installs it. 

Once the download portion was complete, I saw the following screen:

I don’t think anyone disconnects and reconnects to the Internet anymore.  This screen might have been OK in 1994, but today? 

Funny stuff…

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